Evolution of education
After reading this passage I’ve learned a lot about the teaching profession I would have never known had it was not for this chapter. I’ve always thought growing up that to be a teacher there were a lot of preparation involved. During colonial times teachers were not trained at all nor were it even a profession that people took serious. The see drunks and thieves and elementary school graduates as teachers now days would never happen with our strict code of conducts that teachers have to go by, those types of people would have never been allowed to teach in a classroom.
I’m all for any on the job training, but not really a big fan of the (TFA) which stands for Teach For America, this program seems to place inexperience teachers into classrooms and expect them to make a difference, without ever providing them any real teaching courses, after a period of time these so-called teachers are given a certificate to become real teachers. I really do not like this program because we cannot play with a child’s education, I strongly believe especially teaching a minor child of pre-school to elementary grade level the teacher should be highly trained and to also be very knowledgably in their craft, these kids minds are developing and they are absorbing everything the teacher is telling, we really have to make sure the person that is doing the teaching is qualified before placing them in the classrooms. I’m sure some teachers that will come out of that program will be good teachers. It seems like they are taking a shortcut into achieving their goals.
I admire the work of these two groups, the Holmes Group and The Carnegie Forum; both of these prestigious group of educators, worked to set standards on preparation of future educators, by putting an end to teaching as only an undergraduate program into a masters level degree. Although not every college or university will adopt that change, but over the years that change will come. Now teachers can be looked at as professionals and not semi-professional.
After reading this passage I’ve learned a lot about the teaching profession I would have never known had it was not for this chapter. I’ve always thought growing up that to be a teacher there were a lot of preparation involved. During colonial times teachers were not trained at all nor were it even a profession that people took serious. The see drunks and thieves and elementary school graduates as teachers now days would never happen with our strict code of conducts that teachers have to go by, those types of people would have never been allowed to teach in a classroom.
I’m all for any on the job training, but not really a big fan of the (TFA) which stands for Teach For America, this program seems to place inexperience teachers into classrooms and expect them to make a difference, without ever providing them any real teaching courses, after a period of time these so-called teachers are given a certificate to become real teachers. I really do not like this program because we cannot play with a child’s education, I strongly believe especially teaching a minor child of pre-school to elementary grade level the teacher should be highly trained and to also be very knowledgably in their craft, these kids minds are developing and they are absorbing everything the teacher is telling, we really have to make sure the person that is doing the teaching is qualified before placing them in the classrooms. I’m sure some teachers that will come out of that program will be good teachers. It seems like they are taking a shortcut into achieving their goals.
I admire the work of these two groups, the Holmes Group and The Carnegie Forum; both of these prestigious group of educators, worked to set standards on preparation of future educators, by putting an end to teaching as only an undergraduate program into a masters level degree. Although not every college or university will adopt that change, but over the years that change will come. Now teachers can be looked at as professionals and not semi-professional.
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